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No. 6l8,343. Patented Ian. 24, I899. G. HAISS.

ELEVATOR AND CUNVEYER.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1898.)

2 SheetsSheet I.

(No Model.)

W/ TNE SSE S A A TTOHN Patented Ian. 24, I899.

G. HAiSS.

ELEVATOR AND CONVEYER.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1898.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

W/ TNE SSE S A TTOR/VEY NrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IIAISS, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

ELEVATOR AND CONVEYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,343, dated January 24, 1899.

Application filed March 29,1898. Serial No. 675,552. (No model.)

I city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in

the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Elevator and Oonveyer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an apparatus by which material, particularly coal, may be raised and conveyed horizontally and automatically dumped at any desired point, and to this end I employ an endless bucket-carrier, two runs of which are vertical and two runs horizontal, the lower horizontal run having a distributor for filling the buckets, so

that the material is lifted to the upper horizontal run, where it may be dumped at any desired point and into any desired receptacle.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claims define the actual scope of the invention.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line 3 3 of'Fig; 1. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4: of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the carrier, the same being shown removed from the way in which it runs.

On a base 6 of any sort is erected the framing, forming a rectangular way in which the carrier runs. This way is formed of two pairs of rail-plates 7 the members of each pair being arranged with their edges adjacent to each other, so as to form two tracks, each having opposing surfaces to hold the carrier in a fixed path. The terminals of the 'railplates 7 are arranged adjacent to each other at the upper right-hand corner of the way. (See Fig. 1.) The rail-plates 7 may be braced by any desired arrangement of struts and girders. I have shown brace-plates 8 exten ding between and rigidly connected with the members of each pair of rail-plates, by which the members of said pairs are rigidly connected with each other. The two pairs of ally with reference to the shaft 15 thereof.

rail-plates are joined rigidly with each other by means of cross-braces 9, located at the top, and the rail-plates are both braced against each other and supported on the base by means of legs 10, which are fastened rigidly 5 to the lower rail-plates and extend down to rigid connection with the base 6. The contiguous ends of the rail-plates 7 are rigidly connected with each other by means of diagonal braces 11, arranged two at each side of the apparatus, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The framing is further supported by downwardly and outwardly extending struts 12, fastened thereto and to the base.

The carrier consists of a series of buckets 14 of trapezoidal form open at their largest sides and each hung loosely on a transverse shaft 15. These shafts 15 are parallel to each other and are connected at each end by two sets of pivotally-joined links 16. Each shaft 15 carries at each end antifriction-wheels 17 having each a flange at the inner edge of its periphery. These wheels 17 are located between and held by the members of the links 16. At the right-hand end of each shaft 15 (see Fig. 2) washers 18 are arranged, such washers serving to hold the adjacent wheels 17 and links 16 further from the buckets 14 than at the opposite sides, so that room is provided for the flanges 19 of the buckets 14. The flanges 19 are two for each bucket and are made fast to the right-hand ends thereof, the flanges on each bucket being disposed at an angle to each other and being run radi- These flanges are for tripping the buckets, as will be fully described hereinafter. The carrier thus constructed extends around in a rectangular line between the rail-plates 7. The wheels 17 roll between the rail-plates, so that 9 the carrier is guided along its fixed endless path. The buckets hang pendent from the shafts 15, and the flanges of the wheels 17 run along the inner faces of the respective railplates. In using the invention it will be desired to elevate the material from the lower horizontal run of the way up to the upper horizontal run and to dump the material at a certain point along said upper horizontal run. This 1 is effected by means of a flanged plate 20. (Shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 and by full lines in Fig. The plate 20 is fixed rigidly to the lower right-hand rail-plate 7 and has its flange projected into the path of the flanges 19 of the buckets 14, so that as each bucket moves toward the plate 20 the forward flange 19 of said bucket will engage with the plate 20 and the bucket will be tripped to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 and by full lines in Fig. 3, so that the contents of the bucket will be thrown out. The bucket then passes by the plate 20 and resumes its normal position, when the plate disengages the flange of the, bucket. By providing two flanges for each bucket and inclining the flanges as described it is possible to move the buckets in either direction and to dump the same irrespective of the direction in which they move. The plate 20 should be arranged along the trackwayat the point where it is desired that the buckets shall be dumped.

The carrier is driven by means of two sprocket-wheels 21, fast on a shaft 22, carried transversely of the trackway and in bearings on the braces 11. The sprocket-wheels 21 are arranged so that their peripheries run between the members of the respective series of links 16 at each side of the carrier, and said peripheries of the sprocket-wheels engage with the wheels 17, (shown best in Fig. 1,) so that the rotation of the shaft 22 and wheels 21 causes the carrier to be advanced along its way. The shaft 22 is driven by a spur-gear 23, fastened to its right-hand end and meshing with a pinion 24, fixed to a transverse shaft 25, revolubly mounted in bearings sustained on the lower braces 11. The shaft 25 may be driven by a pulley 26*, fixed to its lefthand end.

In order that the buckets as they pass around the upper right-hand corner of their run may be kept effectually in position and prevented from oscillating to spill their contents, each inner rail-plate 7 is provided at its upper right-hand end with an extension railplate 26, which plates are arranged so that as the wheels 17 roll beyond the upper ends of said rail-plate 7 the extension rail-plates 26 will engage with the flanges of the wheels, and

thus hold the wheels out in the same vertical line in which they previously traveled until the sprocket-wheels 21 are effectually engaged with the said wheels 17, whereupon the wheels 17 begin to turn around the sprockets. Then as the wheels 17 pass from the sprockets preparatory to resuming their position between the rail-plates 7 the flanges of the wheels 17 roll first on extension rail-plates 26, which aretwo in number and fastened, respectively, to the inner faces of the inner rail-plates 7 at the right-hand ends of their horizontal runs. These extension rail-plates 26 carry the flanges of the wheels 17 until the wheels engage with the inner rail-plates 7, whereupon the peripheries of the wheels 17 engage the rail-plates in the manner explained. By such an arrangement it is impossible to throw the buckets out of the proper position, and thus spill their contents as they turn around the sprocket-wheels.

The buckets are filled as they pass along the lower horizontal run of the trackway without stopping the carrier by means of a drum 27, mounted loosely on a stub-shaft 28, which extends through the right-hand head of the drum and which is held rigidly in a box 29. The box 29 in turn is held rigidly and also adjustably on a horizontal angle-iron 30, which holding is effected through the medium of a U-bar 31, provided with a binding-screw 32. The angle-iron 30 is fastened rigidly to the two braces S at the right-hand side of the lower horizontal run of the trackway. This angle-iron 30 extends approximately along the entire length of the lower horizontal run of the trackway, so that the drum 27 may be placed at any desired point along this run, to

the end that the material may be placed in I the buckets at the point convenient. The drum 27 has its left-hand end open, so that the material manipulated maybe thrown into the drum through the left-hand end. The drum is provided in its sides with a series of dischargempenings 33, which are arranged to mesh with the respective buckets as the drum rolls on the shaft 28. Thus the material is thrown into the drum,and as the carrier passes beneath the drum the drum rolls to dump into each bucket a quantity of material through one of the openings 33, the openings being so disposed that none of the material will be spilled between the buckets, as may be understood by reference to Fig. 4:. The drum is caused to revolve in unison with the movements of the carrier by means of a disk 34, made fast to the right hand or closed end of the drum and projecting beyond the drum and provided in its projected portion with equidistant notches 35, receiving the washers 18 of the shafts 15, whereby to transmit to the disk 34 the requisite movement.

By means of the construction herein shown and described I am able to provide an apparatus that is movable each way and which may be reversed at will to move the material in one direction or the other.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of a trackway, a bar. extending along the same and rigid therewith, a bearing, means for adjustably holding the bearing on the bar, a stub-shaft held by the bearing, a drum mounted to turn on the stub-shaft, the drum having dischargeopenings in its sides, a carrier running in the trackway below the drum and having buckets successively filled at the discharge-openings of the drum, and a disk fixed to one end of too the drum and having notches, the walls of which engage portions of the carrier to impart movement to the drum.

2. An elevator and conveyer havin g a fram- 5 ing forming a rectangular Way, a series of buckets running in the way, a supportingbeam held on the framin g, a stub-shaft, means for adjustably holding the stub-shaft on the supporting-beam and in a position transverse t0 the same, and a distributer-drum mounted 10 to turn on the stub-shaft and to' feed the material handled to the buckets of the framing.

GEORGE HAISS.

lVitnesses:

JNo. M. BITTER, ISAAC OWENS. 

